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Peg-gear-clock
Houtman Designs
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8-day Wooden-gear Clock with Modern 3-hand Dial
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Efficient Original Design
Only 4 Wooden Peg Gears
No Small Pinions
No Gear Teeth to Cut
Drive Weight Options
32 Hours (4 lb, 48")
or 8 Days (24 lb, 48")
Modern Dial
3 Concentric Hands
Beats Seconds
Regulator Accuracy
Within 5 Seconds Per Day
Grasshopper Escapement
Compensated Royal
Pendulum
Huygens' Endless Chain
Rewind While Running
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Tools
Scrollsaw
Drill Press
Belt/Disc Sander
Suggested Materials
Hardwood and/or
Plywood
Dowel
Metal Bushings
Suits Low Ceilings
Clock dial center is
64" from the floor
Top of finials are
76" from the floor
Fits Grandmother,
or Grandfather
Clock Cases.
Case recommended
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21st Century Design - whisper quiet and easy to run
Woodworkers with intermediate skills can use our woodworking plan
to construct a wooden gear clock that will run reliably for generations.
This heirloom quality clock makes a unique conversation piece
and a great gift.
Sample of our Clock Plans
Overview of the History of Wooden-gear and Pendulum Clocks
NEW
Our History of Longitude Navigation by Marine Chronometer
and Astronomical Methods
Note: Plans or patterns for our clocks are not published elsewhere.
They are available only by mail order from our company, Houtman Designs.
10 Printed Pages of Clock Plans
Full Size Pattern
for the following:
Clock, Wall Mount, 17th Century Clock Dial, 3 Clock Hands.
Also included are Meshing Diagrams for Clock, and
Detailed Instructions in English.
10 Pages, 14" x 18"
$50 U.S.
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Orders from U.S.A. and Canada
Shipping First Class Included
U.S. - Check or Money Order in U.S. Funds
Canada - Money Order Only in U.S. Funds
Sorry, no credit cards
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Make all Checks and Money Orders Payable to H. Houtman
Please read this before you order.
This is designed as a home hobby project.
We give you limited rights when we sell our plans to you.
Price does not include rights to reproduce clock for sale.
No group or institutional orders.
Each individual building a clock is required
to purchase their own copy of the clock plan from us,
registering their name and address with us.
Our Clock Plans are not to be displayed in,
or loaned by Libraries (public, free, or rental.)
They are not to be included in any group pattern collections,
either classroom, or club.
We enjoy designing items for the home hobbyist.
We know many people in this country
are still capable of making commercial quality items
at home for their own use.
We have designed this project
to help people learn useful woodworking skills
while building a collectible timepiece.
You are welcome to join
successful people from around the world
who have built their own heirloom quality
wooden peg-gear clock!
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To Order Clock Plans Please Click, Print Form and Mail
Houtman Designs,
P.O. Box 466, Custer, WA, U.S.A., 98240
Our professionally designed wooden-gear clock has
Huygens endless chain,
keyless side-wound 32-hour or 8-day movement,
wooden grasshopper escapement,
grid-iron pendulum, and a bead-chain drive.
It has peg gears (no sharp gear teeth profiles to cut),
efficient design with low number of gears (4),
and a dial with 3 concentric hands.
It is a robust design,
capable of many years of excellent performance.
It is accurate in any humidity,
made with inexpensive materials,
and able to fit 7 foot (or higher) ceilings.
Why not build the heirloom clock
your family would be proud to run for many years!
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Although the field of mechanical clock design is hundreds of years old, there was room for a new design to meet the requirements of today’s customer. There are many features that are "firsts" in our clock design, among them:
1. Reduced number of gears compared to other wooden-clocks. It has the lowest number of any wooden-gear clock (four). Most other wooden-gear clocks have at least ten.
2. An appropriate tooth design for wood. It is easier to construct than the teeth found in other wooden-gear clocks and metal machinery. Our use of simple dowels for peg-gear teeth avoids the difficulties associated with filing hundreds of perpendicular gear teeth after rough cutting the teeth with a scroll saw.
3. Long cycle. The clock movement runs 8 days, and with its maintaining power can be rewound while running without reset.
4. Extremely quiet operation even when the movement is run without a case. Quieter than any other wooden clock and most metal pendulum clocks.
5. Familiar 3-hand dial. This is the first wooden-gear clock to look modern from the front.
Training in Engineering includes education about material properties and design, with an emphasis on designing for the material used. We wanted an excellent design for wood. Therefore we included certain features to produce the best possible accuracy in wood. One of these is a frictionless, wooden grasshopper escapement. This clock is not adapted from other wooden-gear clocks, machine gears or watch escapements. It is a new design.
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Our Idea for a Stacking Toolbox (drawing and description)
Our Intro to Our Published DIY/How-to Journal and Magazine Articles,
With a Link to Full References
NEW ARTICLE - Precise Pendulum Measurement Using An Electronic Oscilloscope
Professional Designs You Can Trust - From the 21st Century
Published Author, National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Horological Science Chapter Newsletter
Clock, clock plans and website protected by USA and International Copyright
2003-2010 H. Houtman
Clock plans reproduced and distributed only by Houtman Designs.
January 2010
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